With the never ending fight against unsolicited email, more and more ISPs and businesses are including an MX check as part of their spam ’scoring’ method. It’s important that you have your MX record configured correctly so that you don’t lose points due to misconfiguration.
Before we get into that, MX stands for Mail eXchanger. It […]

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I went looking around a while back for some CPanel tutorials that I could recommend. The best I found were the videos at DiscoverCPanel.com.
I’ve said many times that I think CPanel is by far the best website control panel, but like most things IT related, it does have a fairly steep learning curve if you’ve […]

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Over the years I’ve been involved in a lot of server moves and I’ve been asked to ‘fix’ a few that have gone awry. By far the biggest problem has always been lack of planning. If you plan your server move carefully then you have every reason to believe it will go fairly smoothly. If […]

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This is the first in a series of tips that will delve into CPanel and soem of the options you have. The first one I’m going to look at is the ‘default email address’.
If you look in the email section of CPanel you’ll see this option. Depending on which version of CPanel is installed, you […]

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As is the case with most services, the quality of hosting providers varies greatly. I have used several hosting services, both shared and dedicated, and also operate my own small server ‘farm’. These recommendations are based purely on my own experience as well as experience I’ve had working on servers at other providers.
The first and […]

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